URGENT: Mike Lindell Resigns from MyPillow to Focus on Minnesota Governor Race

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"This decision is not about walking away. It is about stepping forward to serve. I am putting Minnesota above myself, my title, and my business interests so I can give this campaign and the people of our state my full time, energy, and attention."
~ Mike Lindell
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In this urgent and deeply personal episode, Mike Lindell reveals the driving force behind his monumental decision to step down as CEO of MyPillow. With the Minnesota primary election looming on August 11, 2026, Mike joins us to expose the systemic corruption of the Uniparty and outline his exact plan to save the state. Armed with Donald Trump's official endorsement and an 82-page budget, Mike is taking on the GOP establishment, standing up against massive wasteful spending, and fighting a spiritual battle for the future of Minnesota. Whether you live in the Midwest or simply care about the trajectory of America, this is a conversation you cannot afford to miss.
Key Discussion Highlights & Takeaways
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The Ultimate Sacrifice: Mike explains his resignation from MyPillow, stating it is not a retreat but a necessary step to give the people of Minnesota his full time, energy, and attention.
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The 82-Page Budget Plan: A deep dive into Mike’s comprehensive economic strategy designed to eliminate the state income tax entirely.
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The Financial Toll of Illegal Immigration: The shocking breakdown of how Minnesota taxpayers are spending $159 million annually to house 1,400 illegal immigrants in state prisons—averaging over $113,000 per individual every year.
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Exposing the Uniparty: Mike pulls back the curtain on how the political establishment, including Lisa DeMuth and Amy Klobuchar, actively works against common-sense solutions and true conservative candidates.
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A Spiritual Battle: Why this election represents more than just policy differences, but a fundamental fight of good versus evil for the soul of the country.
⏱️ Show Timestamps & Chapter Markings
- [00:00:00] Intro & Summary of Mike Lindell's Journey and Minnesota's Political Climate
- [00:05:24] Mike Lindell Welcome: Stepping Down as MyPillow CEO to Go 100% All In For Governor
- [00:09:47] Navigating the Minnesota GOP Convention, Delegates, and Establishment Obstacles
- [00:13:27] A Spiritual Battle: Addressing Radical Agendas and Cultural Shifts in MN
- [00:15:15] Critique of Amy Klobuchar, Bipartisan Claims, and the Farm Fest Debate
- [00:17:11] Media Hit Jobs, False Narratives, and Being Framed
- [00:21:09] Social Media Censorship, Big Tech Bias, and Protecting Free Speech
- [00:28:02] The 82-Page Budget Plan: Eliminating State Income Tax and Fixing Healthcare
- [00:36:37] The Uniparty Threat, Lisa DeMuth, and Why the GOP Primary Matters
- [00:46:58] Tackling Illegal Immigration, Sharia Law, and Protecting State Resources
- [00:56:36] The True Cost of Prison Inmates and Honoring American Veterans
- [01:00:23] Final Call to Action, Voting on August 11th, and Closing Remarks
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- Mike's Proposed MN Budget can be downloaded at https://mikelindellgov.com/
- Download the FULL 799-page Report Mike Discusses with proof of fraud, bribery, and election fraud now! https://electioncrimebureau.com/lotsaevidence/
- 2026 Minnesota Farmfest Full Governor's Forum: https://youtu.be/RqLKfYAc_GM?si=lnqNzP98E9F4MVzr
- CORRECTION: 7-0 Mosque approval in McKinney TX, not Virginia: https://www.fox4news.com/news/mckinney-city-leaders-vote-7-0-approve-controversial-mosque-development
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URGENT: Mike Lindell Resigns from MyPillow to Focus on Minnesota Governor Race
David Pasqualone: [00:00:00] For those of you who don't know what's happening in Minnesota, who Mike Lindell is, or why he's running for governor in 2026, here's a brief explanation and summary of what's going on in five minutes or less.
Mike was a serial entrepreneur and drug addict for most of his life. After years of ups and downs in business and life, he accepted Jesus and everything changed. He invented MyPillow in 2004, and in 2005 at a county fair, sold his first pillow. Since then, MyPillow has sold over 50 million pillows, other household items that make people sleep better, save money, and just have a better life in general.
He was America's sweetheart and the model of the American dream. He was invited to meet with the president and discuss US manufacturing and job creation in 2016. [00:01:00] To this point, Mike had zero interest in politics and admittedly had never even voted in a presidential election to that point. After this meeting though, him and President Trump became fast friends and continued the relationship.
When the 2020 election happened, Mike was shocked and startled at what he was seeing. Because of this, he decided to independently research the election to see if there was fraud or not. The results he, Rudy Giuliani, and so many other Americans found was overwhelming and frankly shocking. Mike went public about his findings and almost overnight the mainstream media, vendors, big box retailers that sold his products all turned on him.
The media labeled him as a conspiracy theorist, lied about his life and business, and did everything they could to position him to the public as an untrustworthy person and basically villain. Voting machine [00:02:00] companies and news channels threatened him, spread countless lies about him, and sued him. He was mocked, betrayed, and abused for sharing his opinions and First Amendment rights.
He was fighting for fair and free elections despite what party you're part of, and he was publicly humiliated for it. He was frivolously sued multiple times for crimes he didn't commit. He was sued by voting machine companies in a ploy to financially exhaust him and destroy his public reputation, and it almost worked.
After spending over $100 million of his own money, now it's coming out that what Mike was saying about the elections was correct the whole time. Meanwhile, while all this is going on, Mike's living in Minnesota trying to support his community, keep his company going, support his employees, and be the voice of [00:03:00] reason, not just in Minnesota, but in America.
As this is all happening, the state of Minnesota is being overrun with corruption, crime, treason, and embezzlement. Billions of dollars have gone missing, and what's scary is what they know where it's gone to under Tim Walz's leadership, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar. All these people are at best complicit to these crimes, if not involved.
That's to come. So while the citizens of the state suffer, Mike's tired of it all, prays about it, and feels led to run for governor. At this time, he's there to try to help clean up the state. He's there to help the people, the citizens. But even though he's the most capable candidate, the GOP nominates someone else to run for governor on their ticket [00:04:00] while the August 11th primary is approaching.
So Mike decides even though the GOP backed another candidate, he's still gong to run because he feels it's the right thing to do and he's the best candidate for Minnesota. So as these poll numbers are coming in and Mike's leading the race despite the GOP's best efforts, President Trump himself completely endorses Mike Lindell for governor and backs him fully.
This enrages the GOP and shames them because they didn't back Mike Lindell even though he was the best candidate. So now the Republican Party actually starts to sabotage Mike's campaign because they can't get their Uniparty puppet in. So remember, there's good and bad in all. There's good Democrats, there's bad Democrats.
There's good Republicans, there's bad Republicans. But all this is going on and the liberals and the RINOs, AKA the Uniparty, are doing their best to [00:05:00] keep Mike Lindell from public office. So now Mike is being attacked by all these people. And today's episode is about where Mike Lindell and the state of Minnesota is as of August 7th, 2026. We're going to talk about the rapidly approaching primary election on August 11th. So Mike, welcome to the Remarkable People Podcast.
Mike Lindell: Oh, thanks for having me on, David.
David Pasqualone: Oh, it's an honor. We just spent five minutes summarizing you, which we left out a ton. People can pick up your book to find out the whole story. We summarized just a bit of the corruption and chaos going on in Minnesota. But as of today, liberals against you, the uni party's against you, rhinos are against you, but yet you're still standing strong.
Talk to us about where you are today and where the state of Minnesota is, and then where you're headed.
Mike Lindell: Why don't we start with MyPillow. You guys saw just this last week, I stepped [00:06:00] down as CEO. I'm I'm leaving MyPillow. I left so I'm a minority stockholder now.
We're bringing back a guy that worked with me till 2019. He was our president. He was hand-in-hand back in the day selling pillows at fairs and shows, and Jim Furlong, and then my son a great team that's here. So they'll... They're going to be v- very strong. They got a lot of new stuff coming out this fall.
But I wanted to be 100% all in for governor, and and MyPillow is in such great shape, and they got everything lined up for doing all the new products coming out this fall. So you have that going on. Now, let's now let's shift to my governor's race, the race itself. When I got the President Trump's endorsement on on, let's backtrack. Let's go a little let's go back to when I announced. I announced back in December on December 8th, and when I announced, obviously the fraud came out about four days later. The, But then I started doing, I went to c- this convention. I remember I had never ran for any [00:07:00] office before, and I didn't know how delegates work and all these things.
And I find out about three, three of these forums in. They said Mike, are you going to honor the endorsement?" I go, "What are you talking about?" And they said, "The Minnesota GOP endorsement. When you honor that if whoever we endorse, everybody else should drop out." I go I just did a poll," or "A poll just came out, and the people of Minnesota want me."
I'm polling... I was polling number one by a landslide then. And I said, "No, I'm not going to go along with that. I've never heard of such a thing." Anyway, so then we started doing different forums and debates, and a lot of them they would not let me come to because I wasn't going to honor the endorsement, everybody.
And then they wouldn't give me the delegate list, so I couldn't even market to them, okay? So then we get to the de- we get to the convention in May, the end of May. And I want to frame this, everybody. In Minnesota, the GOP The Minnesota [00:08:00] GOP has picked our Republican candidate since 1994, for 32 years, David.
32 years that whoever they say, that's who everyone in Minnesota, you got to pick, you have to pick. So in other words, these people, these t- 1,500 people, whatever, pick the one that we're supposed to go. So you're, you might get a candidate and all of a sudden you go, "How come we have this person?
Where- d- didn't anybody else run?" Things like this. So we get up to, we get to the convention, of course, and then remember that all these delegates that every- that they've h- got to kind of market and they've got to, try and get them to vote for them. I wasn't able to do that. So we get there, and it goes 10 rounds.
Anyway, to make the story short, I get knocked out in the fifth round, and then there's Kendall Qualls, who's running, and then Lisa Damith, who's speaker of the house, the establishment, the one that they chose, okay? The chosen one. It ends up the machines [00:09:00] go down, everybody. What- how ironic, the voting machines go down and Kendall wins, okay?
Kendall wins, so now they got to endorse Kendall. But what did they say the next day, David? They say, "Lisa Damith, you get to run too because we had voting machine problems. So you go ahead and break your promise. You go on to run too." Okay? So now you have Kendall Qualls, who the party should be getting behind and spending a lot of money on him because he's their choice, okay?
But here's what's happened, everybody. The- President Trump endorsed me about, let's say, three, four weeks ago. From that day, the party came out, Alex Plekhish, and attacked me on the GOP website and said, "Go- w- the president made a bad choice. You sh- Mike Lindell left the state and went to Texas and and he..."
And then they attacked me. "He's not even a resident. He doesn't have a driver's license. He's not registered." [00:10:00] The craziest stuff you'd ever hear, right? Now, in the meantime, they're not supporting Kendall Qualls, they're supporting Lisa Damith, and all the media starts attacking me. Get this everybody, you've probably seen it.
First it was Mike's giving out little pillows at parades. So here we are everybody, giving out pillows. We checked on it for the campaign finance board. It- it's, they're under $5. We crossed every I and dotted that... or crossed every T and dotted the I's, and, of course we can do it. Get... And so they've attacked on that.
That's actually in the news again today. The judge ruled that it's got to go to now a three-judge panel on, And so they're putting out all this stuff. Then they put a whole thing out, David, as "Mike Lindell wants amnesty. Mike Lindell wants amnesty." And so they put that attack out. Then they, the one that this week again that they circled back to was Mike...
They tried to disqualify me with [00:11:00] the Secretary of State, who's- who's bad, a crooked, bad guy, and they went to him, Steve Simon. But Alec Preckes sent a letter and says, "We still don't believe Mike's a resident of Minnesota." You can't make this stuff up. And so this has been an all-out attack by the Minnesota GOP, our own party.
It's shameful. But David, why are they attacking? They're attacking everybody because I'm polling number one by a lot. Okay? And that's the bottom line. We're polling by a lot. I told my teams, "Don't let up, you guys." And I said, "We've got to just overrun the race, it's like a race, you're leading by a long shot.
We... How many races have we ever seen where something happens right at the finish line and you don't put that same drive through? And that's what we have to do. It's Tuesday night is the election. When I get off this, this is my last show here, you guys, and I'm is, going to spend the next three days the digital marketing co- [00:12:00] making videos and doing what I do best, get Kim, putting out the marketing.
We've got to get out and vote. This is critical. People people don't realize now that this is it. This is, to me, it's all right here for us to have a chance. This Lisa Damith, this establishment candidate, same old. She was around when all this stuff happened. Just 'cause you got a, this fraud and everything el- You got an R by your name and you didn't yell loud enough, there, there's a problem with that.
Yeah. Yeah, and I want to... You have so much going on, I want to make sure people are catching what you're saying. Ladies and gentlemen, Mike is living up and above the expectation of what he's preaching. He's practicing what he's preaching. If you heard him correctly, he just resigned his position as CEO of MyPillow, where he would make far more money and have far less stress than becoming the governor of Minnesota.
He's doing that because he loves God, he loves Minnesota, he loves [00:13:00] his people of Minnesota, and he loves America. So that's one huge point. I just want to make sure people caught that, Mike.
And it, and you just brought up another. They say why are you running, and why are leaving an easier thing behind?"
Which, by the way, MyPillow was not easy to get through these last three years of attacks, but to come out the other side, it's very, it was very ... It's one of the hardest things to ever do is say goodbye to everybody a couple days ago. And, but you look at I was just at Farm Fest in Minnesota here, and f- all the candidates were on there, including Amy Klobuchar, and one of the things they said was, Minnesota, this is a battle of, a spiritual battle of evil and good too.
When you have a governor that accepted a satanic statue in our capital, everybody And then he got a reward for it. He said we have to be fair. Fair to who? Fair to the devil? We've got these things going on that you can't make up. Just a week ago, David, I don't know if you've seen this, our governor, he okayed this group, you can't [00:14:00] make this up, four to 10-year-olds having do- these little dolls that they can change the genitals, you guys, and it's disgusting.
And it was that $1.5 million allotted to this. This is the same guy that put tampons in men's bathrooms. This evil is still going on right now as we speak, even though he's going to be, he's going to be up on criminal charges. They say, "Mike, when you get in," I said, "Are going to, you going to go after this fraud and what's left?"
I go, "The, the, right from the top. Right now your Keith Ellison, our attorney general, Ilhan Omar, Waltz, all of them." These, these people, it's just evil what they're doing. So that's another reason. It's not just a battle of politics. And there's an open door here that no man can shut right now because the fraud and all the bad things going on.
Amy Klobuchar dropped in her likable thing for the first time in a long time, I just seen by about 10 points. This was in her likability. And she, we just did a, we just did a [00:15:00] debate at Farm Fest, and she up there, the crowd booed her and she got mad at the crowd. You see the angry Amy her an- her hate, the anger coming out.
It was amazing. I'm going, "Wow." She goes, "You guys be, quiet or whatever," and she just kind growled at them. It was you know- Yeah ... these are the people she's trying to convince.
David Pasqualone: I actually wanted to bring that up to our listeners on this show because I watched five minutes of that debate with Lisa and Amy and forgive me- Kendall.
Kendall. Kendall. And in the first time Amy Klobuchar spoke, she lied. Yeah. She said- Oh, yeah ... "I am the number one senator for bipartisan bills." I used Gemini and then I did more digging. She's not number one, she's not number three, she's not number five. She's 15. So that's the first issue. Second issue is if somebody's the number one bipartisan person, yeah, Ronald Reagan got stuff done, but by keeping standards. Amy [00:16:00] Klobuchar has tanked the state along with Lisa DeMuth- ... and they have allowed the corruption and the chaos. So why would anybody in their right mind vote for these humans- Yeah
when they're part of the huge problem? And probably more is going to come out as the time moves forward. So I just want to make sure I brought that up.
Mike Lindell: Yeah, absolutely, and Amy brought up too that she gets along with law enforcement. When she got booed, it was it was pretty amazing. I that brings up another
This is one I want to tell you that I didn't bring up before. I was trying to think of the other attack. Now, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in Minne- in Minneapolis, the worst paper in the country now, they've overtaken, and believe me, I know them all. They've overtaken the Washington Post now as the most corrupt, evil paper.
Evil. I'm going to call it pure evil. What they did, and Glenn Taylor, he wants Lisa DeMartino, Glenn Taylor, the owner. Okay, you've all seen my book. You're going to be amazed at this one, David. So everybody, in my [00:17:00] book, there's a story in there where I was accused and charged with a crime. It was a domestic Well, if you read the whole story about it, I was immediately found in- innocent of it, and why?
Because I had a, the perfect alibi. You know what that alibi was? I was in another jail in Las Vegas, Nevada, so I couldn't have done what was set up for me to put me in jail here in Minnesota. It was a complete set-up, so when I was arrested, I get into the jailer, who I knew very well here in, in Chaska, and I said, "Brian," he goes...
I go, "Brian, when was I supposed to have done this?" And he's, he gave me the date, and I said, "I couldn't have done it. I was in jail in Las Vegas." And he looked it up. He says, "Wow, you were." I was immediately released, but this is like how t- how red tape goes. That didn't get, David, that, but you're charged, and you had a warrant out.
That, I [00:18:00] had to get that completely expunged and wiped off my record, but you know what? So it's not on there, 'cause I, never happened, but it's in my book. So what the Minnesota media did here, this is three days ago, headlines in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Mike Lindell com char- was charged with an, a domestic assault, and he has a, a habit we, a habit back in the day of, he got into it some one of his employees, and it said, "Do we want angry or a- Mike Lindell and Amy Klobuchar both being the, the p- two people that treat people like this being our governor."
And I go, and I'm going... So I had all the media at Farmfest, and I said, pointed out the Star and Tribune, I said, "You should be ashamed of yourself. You didn't finish the thing. I wrote it in my book." I said you cherry-picked it out and didn't put the ending." And with all the media there, I go, "You guys, I didn't do it."
It's a pretty good alibi, probably the best ever when you're incarcerated in another jail. You know- Yeah ... that's [00:19:00] about as good as it gets. I was pro- I'm probably the first one in history maybe that got framed for a crime, and he's in another jail at the time. That's, yeah. So I thought, I thought it was book-worthy, but my point being is if, just like the Star and Tribune when they came away and said I didn't have a, I wasn't registered to vote here in Minnesota, and then they find out I was, they didn't do an apology, everybody.
And then you know how they said about this? They said, in the Tribune, if you look, it says opinion. So it's some guy's opinion that gets to write a hit job in your paper? You want to talk about defamation lawsuits. This is direct interference, which by the way, I do want to s- I do want to compliment Facebook- I went out publicly, they were banning MyPillow, and my, and after the president's endorsement, I couldn't advertise my campaign or MyPillow was shut down.
I put it out publicly to everybody, and they reached out to me and both of them they [00:20:00] fixed immediately. They didn't say "Hey, it was an accident," or whatever, but I do commend them for doing the right decision and opening them up immed- you know, within a day of... But if I didn't have that voice, David what about the guy, what about the little guy that, that's getting stopped from his voice?
And and by the way- Yeah ... right now it's actually happening on my X. You can't make this stuff up. On X I'm stuck at the same amount of people. I don't go up any day. I'm going to actually be reaching out to Elon Musk somehow because I'm being stopped over there. You- can you imagine me in the last year and a half having 940,000 followers and it's stuck on that number with all the stuff I've been in the news?
Yeah. And, shame on you, X. And I'm not blaming anyone, but it could be a computer that did it, so I haven't reached out, so I guess I shouldn't shame on them yet. But it's it's very disturbing that a lot of people that have that many followers and you want to I want to get the word out, that should be up to 2 million, 3 million, [00:21:00] and it's been s-
David Pasqualone: 100%.
100%, it's, it's- It's been
Mike Lindell: stuck for two years at t- 940,000. This is the world we're in. It it's just, it's terrible. So
David Pasqualone: anyway- Yeah. I know, I'm, I not only have the podcast, but I'm a marketing and sales consultant. I have dozens of clients in through the years, and watching the social medias censor information is unbelievable.
And just remember two or three weeks ago, I let you know that they were censoring and not allowing us to promote an episode with you, and then when we appealed it, we got back, this complete- Oh,
Mike Lindell: wow
David Pasqualone: Yeah, it was like, "We're not responding to you 'cause we have nothing that we can defend ourselves with, but we're still going to block you."
So anyways, I can't wait till these companies are accountable. Like- Yeah ... I believe Mark Zuckerberg's changing some of his actions, but not because he has to. It's be- ... not because he wants to, it's 'cause he's losing money. '
Mike Lindell: Cause he had to. He did not want, he did not want me, that, that post being up there to- Yeah
the whole country that Mike Lindell's being blocked where he can't [00:22:00] do his ads and then you took away MyPillow ads. Yeah. You got to realize the same company, you guys, in the 2020 election, Facebook would not let me ha- the, where it got the picture of me holding the pillow like this?
Yeah. They would not allow my face because I was so branded with President Trump. I had to remove me from all the ads a month before the 2020 election. And now everybody knows from that point on, every day anything I put up it said, contains false information." So I guess they've come a long way.
But and my, and I got to check my Facebook, the,
David Pasqualone: Y- i- and
Mike Lindell: while you're- That number was stuck, that number was stuck too. We'll see if it's been going up now, but they Anyway, and people say what, what's the big deal?" You guys, this is the reason right now, the big advantage we have now, one of the biggest to save our country, bar none, is our voice now.
Because w- five years ago we didn't have all this, but now we have 14 different social media platforms, great podcasts like we're, one [00:23:00] we're on right now. Remarkable. And so our voice is so much bigger and we can call out at these places like and the more I look over here the more I am upset with with X X just stuck on that number.
Yeah. It's not right.
David Pasqualone: Let me do this. We know and our listeners know how biased and how much propaganda is on social media, and that's a fight we need to go to. But right now we have days to get you to win the Republican primary. So I want to bring up, even though Amy Klobuchar is the probably Democratic forerunner- Yeah
it blew my mind. Like I said, I only watched five minutes of Farm Fest. But the issue of permitting in Minnesota came up, and her response as a business owner, not all of our listeners are business owners, but ladies and gentlemen, please think about this. Her response to the b- so businesses trying to get permits to grow, to change, to move, [00:24:00] to basically conduct business and bring income to theirselves, to their employees, to the community, her socialist, communist mentality was if we can't get...
we're going to... This is our next level of achievement. If we- I- ... as a state can't get you the permit in time, we'll give you your money back for
Mike Lindell: the permit. Yeah, that was, I heard that coming. I
David Pasqualone: mean, as a business owner, that means nine months and then my business is destroyed by then- Yeah ... and you give me back $150?
Mike Lindell: 150 is- That is the worst pers- I, she did the, she answered the same thing twice. She said that twice. She said it again later too. She doubled down on that. It's it's, it- And
David Pasqualone: she was reading a checklist. She was reading- Yeah ... a checklist. Her whole
Mike Lindell: part is trash. It's un- it unwork- unbelievable. Everybody...
So you have to realize in Minnesota, the regulations here and these and permits and all this stuff, just MyPillow, when we moved a few months ago, it took us three months to, or three, four months to move, but part of that there [00:25:00] was a big problem 'cause we were waiting on the inspectors to get a p- a permit so that we, how high our racking could be in our building.
So we had to rent 120 semi-trucks to put the product in first but because we couldn't put anything in the building till the inspectors came and got the permit. So to re- And then also if, talking to the farmers, David, right now they don't even have enough people. There's nobody there to go get their permits.
So you know, these are things, there's holes in the system. So you know, oh yeah, you stick you bring it up $200 to apply for this permit, and and you send it in, there's nobody there to even do it, even if there was, and it's not done in time and you just lost a half a year's worth of business or whatever it would be.
But her answer was disgusting. I'm glad you caught that, 'cause I was blown away by it. It's like saying, "Hey, you know what? If we don't give you your 50 two, a million dollar check that you applied for, we'll give you $500 back,
David Pasqualone: yeah. And I don't want to get you in trouble.
[00:26:00] I'm going to speak what I feel is right, and ladies and gentlemen, Mike and I are, do a lot of shows together because I believe it's right and common sense. But when you watch this Farm Fest, like I said, I watched about five minutes and then I had to get off to a project. But Amy Klobuchar lied. Yeah. She was out of her mind with her responses.
They will not help anybody in any state- ... or any country. And then Lisa Demuth, as far as I can tell, man, she's done nothing but hurt the state so far, and she's going to continue to hurt the state. And then Kendall-
Mike Lindell: What do you what do you think of Lisa's response? It was like typical politician gibberish.
David Pasqualone: Yeah.
Mike Lindell: That's what- it's like, okay, so you're a good speaker and you're saying, "You know what? A year ago I seen the fraud and I, and those Democrats, they stopped it." Good for you. Why didn't you tell the state? Why didn't you tell his people before we had to find out by f- from Nick Churlin, a reporter in Minneapolis, "Hey, you got a problem here."
Yeah. "There's $9 billion missing." Lisa, if you knew about it a year [00:27:00] ago, you should have done something or yelled louder. You know what they said? They said another question was ... Or maybe that was a show I was on. It was about, "Hey, we've set up these two organizations now in Minnesota to look for fraud."
You know what? You should have set them up a long time ago, and if you didn't, they're doing a bad job. Whenever one reporter can come here, you can see it with your own eyes,
David Pasqualone: yeah, and they don't want to bring it out because they know the problem's a lot bigger and they don't want people digging.
It's sick. And the one thing I actually thought was dangerous is Kendall, a lot of people in the party were trying to move to Kendall. He is very likable and he sounds great, but again, when you dig, I'm listening to the answers. He's passionate and he sounds like, again, likable and trustworthy, but there was no actual plan.
He was pointing out- No ... all the things that needed to be fixed- Yeah ... but I didn't hear any... And I could be wrong. I didn't listen to the whole thing-
Mike Lindell: Oh, no ... but
David Pasqualone: no plan of how to fix it.
Mike Lindell: I got to tell you about Kendall. [00:28:00] So the running joke has been in the last six months as we've watched him, they'll ask him a question and then he'll answer it, and it's not the answer to the question.
He'll say, "We've not won the trifecta since 1969. We need to win the trifecta, and I can get the... Basically, I can get the inner city vote. I'm an outsider. We need an outsider." And that there's no substance. About three weeks ago he said, "I'm going to give you a $9 billion rebate," and everyone's going, "Okay, that sounds great, but where are you getting the 9 billion?"
That's why I came out with my budget, exactly stuff like this. I'm on that stage, and what did I say? I go, you're going to see this in my budget. You're going to see this in my budget." It came out yesterday, everybody. What do you think the media's doing about that? They're calling me about nonsense, about giving a pillow out at a parade, or they're calling me about something that was in my book, or they're saying, "Are you sure you're a resident?
Are you sure MyPillow's not bankrupt?" Instead of saying, "Mike, question me about my budget." It's a pretty [00:29:00] bold, David, when I say Minnesota will be the 10th state to not have to pay state income tax, but I backed it up with it's 82 pages long, anybody that wants to dig in there. We save 10 billion a year on healthcare, 10 billion with a B, and it's not cutting healthcare.
It's taking out that, the insurance, the middleman there, and letting people have direct primary care like it used to be when we were growing up and you go see your doctor when you're sick or when you just need a, a checkup from the neck up, and you go see them when any- whenever you want it. They're going, "Oh, it's changed now.
It's too busy." No. Doctors now, when they don't have the direct primary care, they have 3,000 people that they need. Direct primary care subscriptions, you only need 400. And doing this, now you're n- what's happening in Minnesota, David, like i- I'll just take my employees or any, any em- any employee in Minnesota, any person, they don't go to their primary care 'cause you might get...
It might be a week out for an appointment or two weeks, and then you go there and y- and you got to pay for it anyway 'cause you got this [00:30:00] big deductible. So what happens is you sit there and you get sicker and sicker. You go to urgent care or the emergency room. And then you got-- and then you're paying through the nose because you're on your deductible.
You're not getting the preventative care, and then you end up like downtown Minneapolis. We're Minnesota nice. You come into the hospital, whether you got coverage or not, we're going to help you out. But these people, too, are not getting m- a checkup. It's like a car going in for a oil change and to checkup.
You do that, your car, you take care of it, and you're not getting in the emergency room so much. It's maintaining. It's not breaking down completely. This is a huge plan. It's been used for and, i'm with the founders, my that helped, helped set this up. It's been used all over the country, and who doesn't like it?
The insurance companies don't like it, I'll tell you that. Absolutely. And they, and Big Pharma doesn't like it. There's... We're going to be going up some monsters, and people said Mike, you do that, you're going to make a lot of people upset." Or and the other one, going after the teachers union, because the plan [00:31:00] I have for our education in Minnesota, and the farmers going up against your Monsantos and your fertilizer companies and your seed companies.
And everyone's going Mike, you're going to be going up against..." I've already done that. I have the courage to keep going. I only have one fear of the Lord. And any of these candidates that would get in, even if they wanted to do it, they wouldn't have the courage to do it. The establishment here in Minnesota with Lisa Damon, same old.
It's very ironic, David, though, Kendall. I do feel for Kendall, though. He worked hard. He won the party's endorsement, but they wanted Lisa Damon, and because the voting machines went bad, they said, "Lisa, you go ahead and run," because that's their baby. That's who they want. The establishment, the UNA party wants Lisa Damon to be the same old.
Oh, they can go and be- She can certainly, she can get along with those Democrats because she's one of them. She's a UNA party. Yep. They sit there and they go, "Okay, if you want the stuff that she's pushed through" it's it's going, you're going, "Is she a Democrat?" Seriously. [00:32:00]
David Pasqualone: And if that was a coach, if the GOP of Minnesota was a coach of any professional team, they'd be fired.
32 years and they haven't won an election, correct?
Mike Lindell: Yeah. 32 years, it's always been their choice. They haven't won a governor's one in 24 years. 24. We have not... You ready to hear this, you guys? We have not won a presidential one. We have s- we've been blue since 1972. The longest of any state. We didn't vote for Ronald Reagan.
David Pasqualone: Yep. You're w- yeah, and that's, and this isn't a badge of honor. That's a badge of shame. The fact that they're picking blue to pick blue is why there's so much corruption, why it's overrun with illegals- Yeah ... and why the state is in shambles in many areas. As many great people as you still have- Yeah ... they need to express their voice and vote
Mike Lindell: for you and Bobby Joe.
Yeah, we got to get everybody's ... we got to get the people out to vote. This isn't e- it's about, sure, it's about turning independents and Democrats and get 'em, get everybody, and I've been everywhere in the state. [00:33:00] But getting the people that voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024 that didn't bother to vote in 2022, do you know why they didn't?
People in Minnesota, they they feel it's hopeless. They go, "Okay, we're always been blue. We always blue." The president gave them hope. We gave, he gave us hope when he ran in '16 and 2020 and 2024. He gave us hope, so everybody got out and voted. In 2022 they're going, "Okay, same old," and then a lot of them just frustrated 'cause the Republican Party picks that candidate, and they so they ... So right now for the marketing we're doing right now, we got to let people know this is the most critical election ever for Minnesota and maybe for the nation. And I say that, you guys. This midterm election we have to win. Everything that's been done so far could end up being in vain.
That's why the president is so critical that we get the Save America Act passed. You guys, think about this, David. If you can't get, [00:34:00] if these Republicans and these Democrats, I'll blame the Republicans there, we kinda know where the Democrats sit, these senators, if they can't get a, the Save America Act passed with the common sense of having citizens vote and prove you live here to vote in our elections, where are we as a nation?
That just shows the whole na- when 80% of people, including Democrats, want that passed. I don't care what you think about anything, the people, you're voted in for the people. We need citizens to vote in our elections. It's, so I'm telling the people of Minnesota, "You got to get out and vote, and Tuesday is critical."
I've told people, "I'm a same day, we got to vote same day, but if you can't, make sure you vote Monday or M- vote today," 'cause you can vote in person right now. Remember, Minnesota, you can always vote early, but I still same day. And what's going to happen, and this is what I believe too, Dave, when they do polls, I think I'm going to be very similar to the president.
A lot of people that are voting for me [00:35:00] aren't going to tell the pollster. They're gon- they're not going to say. They'll say they're undecided- Yep ... 'cause they don't want to say it over the phone. I really think that's a factor. We have a lot of undecided, and I think it, that stigma, there's that stigma.
They go, "Oh, maybe they're going to attack me like they did Mike," or maybe they're going to... That's how th- that's how President Trump on '16, '20, in those two election years, they mis- they misjudged him that he was going to get all them votes, so when they went to cheat, they didn't take enough because the people didn't say they were going to vote for him.
David Pasqualone: Exactly, and when I go to Massachusetts to visit my family and friends where I grew up, so many people, I'm talking I was getting a haircut at a barber shop, they absolutely voted for Trump, and they were terrified to tell anybody- ... 'cause they said, "There will actually be the psychos that break out my windows- and harm me physically." Yeah. And then I was just up in New Jersey for your fundraiser where President Trump was at, and I got a ride from where I was staying to the airport, [00:36:00] and that driver was saying how at first he was, like, real quiet, and as- Yeah ... we're talking he opened up. He's like, "Yeah, me and my mother," he, and this is New Jersey.
And he's like, "We voted for Trump." He's like, "Because the, he is doing what's right for American." And they were immigrants who came in the right way. Yeah. So anybody with honesty and sanity is seeing that what this administration doing is right, and what you're doing is right- Yeah ... and what Tim Walz and Keith Ellison and Amy Klobuchar and Lisa Demuth have done is either nothing, at best they're complicit, or they're actively- Right
involved in the crimes.
Mike Lindell: Yeah. No, you're exactly right. And they, and isn't it funny that the whole Minnesota GOP, that establishment with that Alex Plekhish- is they're so afraid they're going to have- this will be the first time that they're picked and win in the primary. In the, and they, by the way, now they asked me, this is- I want everyone to know this. They [00:37:00] asked me, "Mike, if, now if you don't win the primary, you're not, are you going to stop?" Absolutely. In fact, I'll give my plan to whoever would keep going and hope they use it, because it's a great budget. It's a, it'd save our state.
And, but they asked Lisa Damon and she would not give an answer, and this was yesterday. Now, why... Now let me tell you what that is, everybody. David, she, with... you understand what I'm saying? So if she went win Tuesday, she won't give an answer that she would stop and not run. Now everybody, let me tell you- That's a uni-party.
Yeah, but,
David Pasqualone: but- That's
Mike Lindell: the uni-party ... yeah, but here's the thing She won't. She will stop, but here's what she's doing by saying that, everybody. By saying that of course it would divide the party and then we- y- Amy would win in a landslide. But but w- because she says that, here's what it does to people.
They go, "Wow, Amy's g- or, Lisa's going to keep going, so we better vote for her and make sure that sh- she wins so we don't have Mike Lindell and her going." You follow me? They're trying to tra- scare people [00:38:00] into voting for her. You got to go with the- with th- with her, and they're doing it for her when they should be getting behind Kendall Qualls.
This is how corrupt it is. The voting machines go down up in Duluth, and they use that for an excuse for her to keep running, but yet when we have problem in voting machines, where's our party? Where's our party to say, "Hey, we've got a problem here." Yeah. This is going to be- And voting machines-
very interesting ... we've already,
David Pasqualone: you've proven they can be corrupted and tampered with, and now they can
Mike Lindell: count- The president dr- the president decertified all the evidence three weeks ago, and he just decertified more, everybody. I forgot to tell you all this. And this just came out in Arizona.
Remember, all this evidence we had five years ago. Now some of the stuff that was just sitting with the DOJ and stuff that he's decertifying, I've already been there and seen it and done it. But some of it's new. You just seen three weeks ago all the stuff that came out about Smartmatic, which by the way you're going to see some big news in Minneapolis here.
They win about that, too. Mike Lindell, he's got all these lawsuit. Let me [00:39:00] see. The $5 million challenge, they overturned it last year. I won. Mike's evidence was good. Dominion dropped their lawsuit after five years. There's no deal there. They dropped it. I can still say melt down the machines and turn them into prison bars, unlike other people that made deals with them where they could never talk about our platforms again.
I would never do that, ever.
David Pasqualone: Fox News.
Mike Lindell: Yep. Yeah.
David Pasqualone: They sold out. To me, Fox News, in my
Mike Lindell: opinion- Oh, yeah, F- and went to Newsmax. You guys, Newsmax and Fox have not had me on their channels to be- to talk about my governor's race. This is just, I think it's disgusting. And I'm I'm kinda more upset with Newsmax.
I know the owner. I know Chris Ruddy. I've reached out to him, "where are you, Chris? How come I can't come on to talk about my governor's race here? I'm number, I'm winning." I don't know. You got to wonder, and e- every time I text him and talk to him he says, "Yeah, Mike, I'll, I'll take care of it. I'll get you on I'm still here, Chris .
David Pasqualone: All right. So let's do this now. Everybody's listening. They're [00:40:00] hearing things. I had some of my friends listen to the intro, and they were like, "Wow, I didn't know that. I didn't know that." So as of right now, this moment, Mike, and the election coming up on August 11th, 2026, what can people do in Minnesota to help turn the state around, and what can people across America do to help?
Mike Lindell: The biggest thing is obviously we need resources. I am a marketer. I have the best marketing plan. We've already put out 10,000 signs around Minnesota. We want to do another 10,000. Right now, we need our biggest push. This is our digital push. This, it goes out to all the people in Minnesota that we need to vote on Tuesday.
Your donations now go to that. You guys get... Go to LindellGov.com and donate, please. This is the, this is what we need. I can't it's very it's very... You got the... So you can get there, Lindell- LindellGov.com, and then if you're in Minnesota, and everybody, share everything we're putting on our social media [00:41:00] site.
So as I'm putting up, I'm on every platform, everybody, and the I'm on every platform and whether it's Gettr, Gab, Truth, Vocal X Facebook. You go there and you'll see my pinned tweet, whatever, you know, and just go right down the line and just share, share, share anything, 'cause I'm going to, I'm actually going to keep that clean for any governor now for the next three days.
It's all going to be about my governor's race. And share. Tell people about my budget that came out. Send them to LindellGov.com. If you're in Minnesota, this is what you can tell your neighbors. If they argue I'm going to vote for this. I don't think I'm going to vote for Mike Lindell what does he know?"
Here's his budget. Now change your mind. You want to have no income tax, no state income tax. It's very real. It's backed up with a budget, the whole budget and if you want to, anybody, w- i- if anybody wants to say to me, "Hey, this will only gain this such bill- this many billions, not this many," so be it.
Let me know that. If there's a flaw in there, find it. I would love to talk to you about it. [00:42:00] But the get the word out, and then also in Minnesota, if y- there's also LindellGov.com. You can sign up to be one of, one of our, we have ambassadors in every county. We're working on the ground getting people, getting the churches engaged.
This is it. Vote Tuesday. Get the word out. But for all of you watching, we really need help with the resources. That digital marketing, the s- the yard signs, the billboard, everything. But now is the big push the next three days. All I'm going to be doing is sitting in a room and just marketing, and there's this is the...
Everyone goes why didn't you have ads in this digital out before?" This is the time right now. I get enough marketing as they attack me. Now it's time to put the f- put the positive out there and say, "Hey, the budget's here."
David Pasqualone: Absolutely. And ladies and gentlemen, think of it this way. Please get involved.
If somehow you're hearing this interview, please act on it. Because if you had a car or a truck and it has issues, and you bring it to the mechanic, and the [00:43:00] mechanic's like, "Oh, yeah, I fixed it," and you get it back and it's doing the same thing. And then you bring it back and they charge you again, and then you get it back and now it's even a little worse, and things are getting progressively worse and months are being wasted, would you continue to go to the same mechanic?
No. That's insanity. So why would you put Amy Klobuchar and Lisa DeMuth back in power or give them more power when they've done nothing and maybe w- we might find out they were part of the problem involved in the bribery and the treason? So please vote for Mike. Vote for men and women who are going to be patriots, not politicians, and make America great again.
Not because that's a Donald Trump saying, because that's a common sense saying. Yes. So Mike, y- you took a huge step. You resigned your role and stepped down from CEO of MyPillow before the primary even happened. That's a huge step of faith- Yeah ... and confidence, and that shows a man who's all in. So between when you win [00:44:00] Tuesday and the actual election, what's the plan for that?
Mike Lindell: This is what we're going to do there is all over Minnesota it's like what I did before with the when I was i- inventing my pillow. We're going to- I'm just going to go everywhere in Minnesota and sell the plan, sell the budget, show people that we can- we got to make Minnesota affordable and here's the plan.
My, whether it be, rallies or whether it be town halls, I- just educating the people. We are- we're going to have the ads and saying, "Here's why you shouldn't go with Amy." In Minnesota, we all know that over here we're going, "Okay, she's done nothing." Like you say, she's, it was here on her watch, too.
But there's a lot of people that are so brainwashed and stuff, and I will go right into that, whether you're talking the cities, the problems in the inner city, the problems in all of our cities, and just basically educate the people, "Hey, there is a solution." 'Cause a lot of people don't think there is a solution for some of these [00:45:00] things, or they think it's too overwhelming, or what's the use?
And so I'm going to really put out a whole program. It's going to be a little different. Rather than sitting and bashing Amy every day, I want to educate them on, "You guys, here's the solution." And you got to get a d- like you said, you got to have a different input if you want a different output.
The same old isn't working, and in Minnesota, we've got a blessing of the fraud and all this nonsense that's went on, men and women's sport. Everything seems to start here in Minnesota. By the time you hear it out there, it's not coming from California. It's coming from Minnesota. What a blessing that the whole country got to see our governor for themselves when he ran for vice president, and everyone's going wild.
So it put Minnesota in the spotlight, and people, it makes people here in Minnesota think. Not just engage people over here, that this will be... we're going to call it too big to rig, I'll tell you. I think e- as we get into this, I [00:46:00] really believe this will be the focus election of the whole country, 'cause they're going, if Minnesota, if you can s- win Minnesota and then fix it- You could fix any state and win any state.
Agreed. We need to show that it can be done. People go, "Oh, you know what? Chicago, we're doomed here in Illinois," or, "We're doomed in California," or, "We're doomed here." You guys, this is it. This is the tip of the spear. We get through and we win this, and we change Minnesota. They ask me, "What are you going to do in the first 100 days?"
Everything. I'm prepared now, just like the president was. We with, we hit the ground running. We're going to start changing things immediately and ma- and making Minnesota every, affordable again, and so the, so you can live here. And I'm telling you, this will be the example of what you can be to get out the...
and also there's a lot of other things, too, everybody, that's even more scary, and that's we live with a lot of Muslims here that are s- practicing Islam, and Sharia law [00:47:00] needs to be banned in Minnesota. And they, And this is another pro- another thing. There's a lot of things. We've got a lot of things going on, but to show the whole country all of these can be solved, and with God, all things are possible.
David Pasqualone: Amen, and all things happen for a reason, even though we don't understand. And you actually just brought up where I was going with the next question. So a lot of states who have gone socialist, communist, they can say they're Democrat, but they're socialist and communist, Marxist, whatever evil hat you want to wear, it's all the same.
But I went and I looked at property in Minnesota, and I was expecting it to be almost given away because so much industry is leaving. The economy's so bad. There are so many actual threatening human issues, like you said, the, the Muslims, the radical Muslims- Yeah ... and the Sharia law. There's so many massive issues that aren't even making the news, 'cause they're being pushed down.
The property value is still so high, [00:48:00] and the expenses are so high. So that shows me the state's about to explode under this Marxist agenda and leadership. So we've already talked about you have a budget plan to help solve that, and I'll put a link in the notes to this interview for it. We talked about election fraud and how not only do they try to change the numbers, but the dim- dumb machines break supposedly, right?
When they really probably just don't want to show how ahead you are. So now what about this Sharia law and the radical Islamic Muslims? Because this is a huge issue across America. Virginia, I heard they just 7 to 1, they awarded... they had 150 people speak, and almost all of them were against putting the Muslim mosque. And they even had someone who grew up under that speaking directly against it, and yet- Yeah ... the board voted 7 to 0 and gave them 5.5 acres [00:49:00] and built this mo- They're going to build this mosque. Yep. So I'm thinking to myself, are these people either true treasonous and out of their minds, 7 to 0, or are they being th- are their lives being threatened to vote that corruptly?
So Minnesota is probably in the same boat. So let's talk about that.
Mike Lindell: Yeah. Okay. There's a lot to unpack there, but the... Five years ago in Minnesota, I s- I said it. I said, "We're a Trojan horse for something so bad- And that would be Sharia law, Muslims practicing Islam. Okay? It doesn't, that doesn't go with our Constitution.
But when I said it back then, I even brought it up, I was a racist. Now with the fraud, everybody, you can scream from the top of your lungs, "Ban Sharia law," and you're not a racist. Okay, there's major problems and they need to be marketed that way. This is, people need to understand that radical Islam, that they need to understand it.
As governor, this is going to, you're going to put out a whole marketing plan for that, of how to [00:50:00] tell people, "Hey, this is, the you can't change our laws here, our Constitution, to go to Sharia law." But there's another thing here, you guys. I want to frame Minnesota, because this has come up too. I want to say a couple things.
The Muslims in Minnesota, the Somalians, are not the illegals that are here. I want people to understand that. They're here legally, okay? And also when you're seeing the hit job on me Mike likes amnesty. I have never been for amnesty, I never will be for amnesty, and I never was for amnesty. Okay? So there's two things going on here in Minnesota, but first I will frame, I want everybody to know that the Mus- or the Somalians, there were so many of them involved and they, however deep that goes, in this fraud.
And and can you take them and put them, "Okay, go back where you came from," if they're here illegal- if they're here illegally? No, you don't. You've got to follow these laws, but you're going to arrest them. If you stop- the [00:51:00] process of Sharia law where it doesn't match our Constitution, you can at least slow that and stop this from happening.
There's things going on, and that's a bigger problem, which I'm learning what I could do as governor, and it's a... but when this came out, remember when the fraud came out, and it was the Somalians and that, now even- it woke up states like Texas all of a sudden goes, "Wait a minute, we have 100, 100 mosques that showed up over the last two years."
You're getting- it's getting out there where people can start speaking out about it so you don't end up like Dearborn, Michigan, where all the signs are in Arabic or whatever, or I go downtown Minneapolis and the ATMs are written in Somalian. There's a lot of things th- there, okay?
Another thing is, but here, now I'm going to go over to the I'm going to go over to a couple more issues real quick. In Minnesota, a driver's license here, we have a lot of people that can't read road signs and they can't drive. They can't... they're basically, they can't, they don't know English.
And I'm going to make it in Minnesota, no matter who you are, [00:52:00] you get a driver's license, you got to be able to speak and write English and read it. That should be a re- that should be a guarantee. Can you imagine having signs in 10 different languages? This would cost millions and millions of dollars, and I was down where immigration was when you talk about immigration.
I was down in Florida. These people are coming in legally. They w- they want to learn English. They want to do it the right way. They're, that's what they do. But no, I want to go to that because I want to address what I'm going to do with the illegals in Minnesota. Right now, this is part of my budget, everybody, there's 100, 1,400 approximately illegals in our prisons.
We're paying 159 million a year for it in taxpayer money in Minnesota. Okay? These are il- these are felons. They've committed all these crimes, plus they're here illegally. Then we have sheriffs in, that in Minnesota that they can arrest their brother, but in, for whatever, they have to arrest their brother, and he's got to do the time, whatever it is.
You arrest an [00:53:00] illegal and you're, and they're ordered to let him go. Even if they hold them for a while, they eventually got to let them go. You can't- you can't get rid of them. Now Minnesota just got an ICE facility we're getting. So what I'm going to do, this is going to make it a lot easier, you take them out of the prisons, you give them to them, and you get them out of our country immediately.
Okay? Then you have the other thing. We have- we have a problem. There's 54,000 illegals that our governor gave these ID cards for, and it's supposed to say, "Not a citizen," but it doesn't, and they're driving, voting or at least their names are on there. That's got to be addressed. But one of the biggest things, everybody, that I'm going to do is the employers that are employing these illegals, I'm not...
It's no longer going to be just a fine if you're caught. You're going to go... It's an automatic jail, and that'll be for the- the managers, the owners. And if that don't work, on the second offense, you lose your business license immediately, whatever it is. [00:54:00] You have to stop this immediately, and here's what'll happen.
The $1.5 billion in taxes in Minnesota will be collected because they'll be employing our citizens and not our illegals, and they will- and they won't continue for Minnesota to be this human trafficking. They're bringing in these illegals to have them- to pay them these wages or whatever, bringing them up here, and we're become a welfare state.
These employers need to be put in prison, in jail, and that- and it needs to stop immediately. Now, then the illegals, you better run. You better get out of here. You don't have a job here. You don't have illegal. You have no reason to come to Minnesota. Self-deport, whatever it is. But I want people to know, I will be cooperating with ICE and with the government, but- Now I hear them say Mike, this just got brought up in the meeting.
Are you going to have them go door to door?" No. I'm a governor. That's a federal thing. If p- if these states cooperate, like your Memphises and your [00:55:00] Washington everybody, there's not a problem. ICE comes in and say, "Here's our bad ones that are in prison. Here they are." And they, and they deport them, and they've cleaned up these cities.
Now have they got 50 million illegals out of the United States going door to door? I think everybody knows that's pretty you can't do that. Do you agree, David? That's just nonsensical, yes. It... But you have to cooperate with the federal government, and when these illegals are in pr- prisons committing crimes, get them out of here.
Walz and our, y- you guys just seen it in the news, our governor here, Walz, tried to protect a guy that committed all these rapes and everything and Marco Rubio had to come here and get him shipped out. Did you see that? I mean-
David Pasqualone: Yeah, 100%. And ladies and gentlemen- He can't make this
Mike Lindell: up ... if you hadn't
David Pasqualone: heard, this is a career lifelong criminal, got convicted of the crime of raping, I think she was like an 11-year-old girl- Yep
one of the many people he raped. Yeah. He admitted to it. He was in prison, and he was about to be shipped back to his own country, I think it was Laos, but I... don't quote me on that. [00:56:00] But Tim Walz and Keith I don't know who the other... I think it was Keith Ellison, Tim Walz, and one other chucklehead gave him a pardon.
Yeah. Walk free, brother. That is sick. That is sick. You just let a rapist on the street, and he said, "Our streets are safer letting this man go." Yeah. What streets do you live on, Tim Walz? Mike, I know you have a tight schedule and there's so much going on, but I want, ladies and gentlemen, think about this.
If you are a taxpayer in Minnesota, if you are a taxpayer in any state, you need to get this. If you are an American or a human on the planet Earth, Mike, go back. You said that right now currently there's 1,400 illegals in the State of Minnesota prison system, correct?
Mike Lindell: In the prison system we pay $159, or $159 million a year to house those 1,400.
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David Pasqualone: okay, this is where I want to get at. Ladies and gentlemen- That is [00:57:00] $113,571 a year per illegal. Do you make that much money a year? Do you think the average disabled American veteran or even veteran gets that much support a year? We're spending more money for the filth and detriment of society that's in prison for crimes they did commit, and they're not even US citizens.
So if you don't think they need to be sent back to their country or being put to death like other countries do, you need to really consider your hard work is paying $113,000 a year plus for people who are harming your children. Okay? Mike, forgive me, I had to put that in 'cause- Yeah ... I don't think people see these big numbers, but they don't break it down.
They don't. Our... I think the average disabled American veteran in the United States- Yeah ... the average veteran gets support of up to $40,000 a year. Yeah. Patriots who served get less than criminals who harmed. It's just not right. So thank [00:58:00] you, Mike. Yeah. And before we end the show, any comments about that or anything else you want to leave our listeners with?
Mike Lindell: No, it's just everybody, r- I believe Minnesota is the last hill to stand on for is, if we lose, if we don't win this election, it's over. People are going to be pouring out of here. We've lost 100,000 citizens of Minnesota, have left Minnesota under Governor Walz, our governor. And I've talked to people all over Minnesota.
They said, "Mike, if you don't win, we're leaving." And and also businesses. So I really, we need your support. I don't, it doesn't matter where you live in this country, this... We are fighting for the future of our country, a future for generations to come. This is... You got to fight where it starts.
You got to fight where it starts. Minnesota is the tip of the spear for so much evil and so many things trying to take away our way of life and to take God out of our country and our... Y- I did that speech at the White [00:59:00] House that time and said, "God, a nation had turned its back on God.
God had been taken out of our schools." I said, "We need to pray for grace and get back in the Word and pray with our family and be with our families." I could have just been talking about Minnesota. I've lived it here. So every dime you put in, I guarantee you it'll be the best money you ever spent on a campaign because we have to win.
We have to win here. It's the most critical election, I believe, ever. That's LindellGov.com, and then I'm going to throw in one more time because I love MyPillow, I want to give them the promo code Remarkable, you guys. My employees, they made it through and they, using that promo code Remarkable, all them specials, free shipping on your entire order.
That's their gift. You guys have always had their back and, , they're going to be just fine if you keep supporting them. And and I'm going to go p- I'm going to go all in 100% to save my state and my way of life here in Minnesota, bring it back, make [01:00:00] Minnesota great again.
David Pasqualone: Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, we love you.
So thankful you're here. Since 2018, we've been r- recording the podcast and trying to bring you content that helps you grow and glorifies God. If you've listened to this episode, please, whether it's on Lindell TV, whether it's on YouTube, whether it's on the Remarkable People Podcast channel, or any of the hundreds of podcast players around the world, please leave a comment, share the episode.
And if you're in Minnesota, go vote for Mike Lindell so he can help right the state of Minnesota and bring hope not only to the citizens of Minnesota, but to the whole country because like he said, it's true. If Minnesota can be recovered, any state in the union can be recovered, and I'd love to see it happen with you, Mike.
Thank you for being here today, my friend.
Mike Lindell: Thanks for having me on. God bless you all.
David Pasqualone: All right, amen. Ladies and gentlemen, we love you. Share this. We'll see you in the next episode. Ciao!
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